A biography for Johnny Gaudreauhasn’t been written yet.
“Sports is awesome. It brings people together.”
“When your team is winning games and you're not producing, it's fine. You just stick with it and you're winning games.”
“It's definitely a challenge being a smaller guy. You've just got to be quicker and faster than everyone.”
“I got cut when I was younger a lot. It sucks. But it's something you need to overcome. Every player's been there, whether you're playing in bantam or in the NHL. Everyone needs to overcome it at some point.”
“On the first day that I got to BC I noticed how close the team was.”
“You dream about stuff like that - scoring in a Game 7 in overtime.”
“It's good to have a coach-slash-dad.”
“It's a game of bounces, and sometimes you get some good puck luck.”
“My father grew up in Vermont, where he was raised on a dairy farm. He didn't have much money growing up, but he did have a pair of skates. So for fun, he would glide on the ponds around the farm during the winter, stick-handling around rocks and branches.”
“As each game goes on, you learn things about the two other players and try to put everything together and make your line successful and when you do that game in and game out and practices throughout the year, you just keep getting better and better as a line.”
“I get to play hockey for a living. So I don't ever take that for granted.”
“You have to try to find a groove and keep rolling every single game.”
“Flying out of Calgary it's always bumpy, windy and snowy and clouds everywhere.”
“Everyone's just so so nice - and that's what I'll remember the most about Calgary. I loved playing hockey there, but the people were super, super nice to me, my family, my wife.”
“I hate flying.”
“I'm incredibly grateful to be an NHL player, and to be making the salary that I make. I don't take it for granted for a second.”
“I had like three or four teams that I knew I wanted to play for. Columbus was obviously high on that list for me.”
“When you're down a goal and you're not producing, that's where you need to step up and make something happen.”
“You can see guys around the League doing things for different charities, different foundations.”
“I think everyone can get better at anything they're doing.”